Group Stays & the Whole House
Archival record. The rates on this page are a preserved 2017 document, shown as history. Nothing here can be booked, and no price below is offered by anyone.
The original group page was a popup barely sixty words long — a rate card for taking the third floor whole. It earns its preservation: it is the only complete price list that survives from the inn's two decades, and it shows exactly how a five-room house thought about groups.
The Gables Together
As the West Gable's page records, the inn's fifth room opened only to parties reserving both third-floor rooms — turning the attic story into a private floor for up to four guests, two queen beds under opposite gables, sharing the landing and bath arrangements between them. The group rate card priced precisely this:
The 2017 Rate Card, Transcribed
| Party | Rate (2017, + tax) |
|---|---|
| Four guests, two rooms | $160 |
| Three guests, two rooms | $150 |
| Two guests, two rooms | $140 |
Read it as a small masterclass in inn economics. The marginal guest cost ten dollars — breakfast, linens, hot water — while the floor itself cost $140 to claim empty-handed. A couple who wanted the attic to themselves paid for the privacy, not the headcount; four friends split the whole floor for forty dollars a head. The card made the West Gable's "closed unless" rule into a product instead of a restriction.
The Whole House
Beyond the Gables, the inn took Whole House reservations — all five rooms to one party, the configuration behind its wedding and anniversary trade and the strictest line in its cancellation policy. A 1907 mansion with a columned veranda, a library with a fireplace, parlors hung with local art, and beds for ten is a natural small-wedding venue, and Trinidad's festival calendar kept family reunions cycling through as well. Guests of those gatherings woke to the same single-table breakfast at eight, multiplied to fill the dining room — by most accounts the moment the house felt most like what the Tarabino brothers built it to be: one large home, shared.